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6 years’ experience working with data. Expertise in quantitative modeling, growing people and making data-driven decisions. Currently working as a Research Associate (Ph.D. Candidate) at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences as member of both the Entrepreneurship & Data Science groups.

I am looking for a position where I can use the skills that I have developed during my years in practice and academia to lead projects in the frame of analytics. As Product Manager (Digital and Data-Driven Products) at Nordex, I would be able to leverage my expertise in both instructing and implementing data-driven methodologies (technologies used mostly: R, SQL and Python). Combining this expertise with my passion for wind turbines, I’m eager to contribute meaningfully to Nordex’s mission in revolutionizing the renewable energy landscape.

Industry Experience

Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany 06/2018 - Present

Program Manager | Research Associate (Institute of Entrepreneurship)

Conducting collaborative research, teaching students, managing industry projects while pursuing independent research and further academic and data science related qualifications.

  • Lead of B2B/B2C industry innovation projects (focus: digital transformation, big data analytics)
  • Designed and conducted multiple lecture units and exams in entrepreneurship and data science
  • Developed and implemented a Digital Teaching and Learning Ecosystem to teach classes remotely
  • Supervised student theses, projects and internships
  • Presented at international conferences and about to publish in related journals

Lufthansa Technik AG, Miami, USA & Hamburg, Germany 04/2017 - 03/2018

Master’s Degree Candidate (dept.: Closed Loop Supply Chain Management)

Created a custom AI-based solution for reducing cost & response time (in collaboration with IBM Watson).

  • Communicated with stakeholders to define project parameters and keep them up to date on project status
  • Optimized use of resources to complete projects ahead of deadline and under budget
  • Designated resources, assigned tasks and monitored performance for each part of the project

Horváth & Partners Management Consultants, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany 10/2016 - 02/2017

Management Consulting, intern (dept.: Transportation, Travel & Logistics)

Worked as a PMO manager on a project for the development of new location concepts of a large European railroad company, replacing the entire existing infrastructure of this major corporate.

  • Operational execution of PMO activities (reporting, budget tracking, preparation and follow-up of meetings)
  • Assistance in establishing the project structure
  • Preparation of profitability calculations and capacity / utilization analyses for the individual sites

AUDI AG, Neckarsulm, Germany 09/2013 - 12/2013

Process Optimization, intern (dept.: Body Construction A6/A4)

As coordinator of the Lean Manufacturing Team, I was responsible to help people to understand the Lean Management philosophy and the operational excellence approach of AUDI (Audi Production System, APS).

  • Training and coaching of lean methods with focus on problem solving, logistics and process synchronisation
  • Preparation, implementation and moderation of shopfloor management projects in direct and indirect areas
  • Optimizing various processes via process mapping and value stream analysis


Fraunhofer institutes (ILT & IPT), Aachen, Germany 2013 - 2016

Student assistants

L’Arche Greater Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada 08/2010 - 08/2011

(Live in) Care Assistant (Alternative mandatory community service)

Teaching Experience

Data Science 10/2019 - Present

Designer & Instructor of multiple business oriented Data Science and Machine Learning courses:

  • Data Science certificate program
  • Business Decisions with Machine Learning
  • Business Data Science Basics
  • Building Business Data Products

Entrepreneurship & Innovation 10/2018 - Present

Teaching students skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up in varying classes:

  • Startup Engineering
  • Sustainable Entrepreunrship
  • Technology Entrepreunrship
  • Creation of Business Opportunities

Education

RMIT University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 01/2023 - 03/2023

Visiting Research Scholar

Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany 06/2018 - Present

Ph.D. Thesis in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Science

Quantitative dissertation (using SQL, R, Python) on the influence of social, structural and reputational effects on entrepreuneurial success.

  • Creation of various databases by scraping different data providers and collaborative platforms
  • Natural language processing on linkedin and startup databases to extract features for network analysis
  • Machine Learning and statistical analysis on large (> 5 billion records) github and stackoverflow datasets

Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands 02/2016 - 06/2016

Visiting Research Scholar

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 02/2014 - 06/2014

Visiting Research Scholar

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany 09/2011 - 03/2018

B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Business Administration & Engineering

Professional Development (Certification)

Business Science University, remote 06/2019 - Present

Applying enterprise-grade end-to-end projects (business & finance) using machine learning and web apps.

DataCamp, remote 06/2019 - Present

Foundations of data science including statistics, inference, computer science, predictive analytics, machine learning and other technologies to gain insights from big data (using R, Pyhton and SQL).